-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 7/15/2015 6:00 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
>> Are you really equating an incremental silent update to remove >> something between one if statement or slightly more and an entire >> protocol stack that when active fundamentally changes the host >> networking behavior? > > Yeah. On the devices I have, there's no practical difference > between a one line update and a complete reload. Either you > update the software or you don't, and mostly you don't. PCs and > servers are easy, embedded routers and printers and the like are > not. And on your mobile devices, for the most part you are reliant upon your carrier to make software updates available to you in a timely and utilitarian manner. In other words, don't hold your breath. Carriers are the major barrier to both feature upgrades and security fixes/enhancements. It is tremendously frustrating. - - ferg - -- Paul Ferguson PGP Public Key ID: 0x54DC85B2 Key fingerprint: 19EC 2945 FEE8 D6C8 58A1 CE53 2896 AC75 54DC 85B2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlWnA/oACgkQKJasdVTchbJAWAD8DhRq1QlPZlZhH8Apr66od+NU Tz8F1bLqu6+3dymwNJEBANjyOh0jwwHhIZk1hOy/jIj8lCuUkYQjuFZlzZFYfwh8 =NuSw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
